User talk:Darthrya

For all to read:

I am a graduate student at Western Washington University. I am working on Iron Maiden's tourography because the official one produced by the band is erroneous, as are all others found in Iron Maiden history books.

My site is the most accurate site because I use correct historical methods as approved by the university. 87% of the dates and locaitons have some sort of corroborating evidence to verify they are accurate. The remaining 13% are based on what information the band put out in one of their older tourographies or based on legacy histories by fans.

The site is improving daily. Even though the tourography is not completely researched, it is by far superior to anything else available. Even other Maiden fan sites' tourographies source my own tourography and they use my research.

May 2007
Welcome to Wikipedia. We invite everyone to contribute constructively to our encyclopedia. However, adding content without citing a reliable source, as you did to Iron Maiden, is not consistent with our policy of verifiability. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you. ≈  Maurauth  ( nemesis ) 20:53, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

Reliable resource
I see. You are willing to cite MetalHammer, Paul Stenning, and Mick Wall as reliable resources? You obviously do not know anything about historical research. I have researched thousands of resources covering Iron Maiden, and you can read my historiography about most sources related to Iron Maiden at http://maidenshows.ryasrealm.com/masterlistresearchnotes.htm.

Because citing sources is important, I wonder why MetalHammer does not? Why doesn't Mick Wall or Paul Stenning? IT IS POINTLESS TO CITE A SECONDARY SOURCE THAT DOES NOT CITE ITS SOURCES. The majority of the citations on the Iron Maiden page come from unreliable sources, and none of the secondary sources use proper historical methods. Only someone ignorant would take Wall's or Stenning's sources at face value. Read my historiography about them and you will notice why.

If you go to my Tourography page and hover your mouse over 1786 of the dates/locations listed (87% of all dates/locations listed), you will see my citation for that date/location. In many cases, a date/location has more than one citation. I have over 2000 citations on that page from primary sources and some secondary sources, which means I have more than 2000 more reliable sources cited on my Tourography than the entire Wikipedia page for Iron Maiden. Add a master's in history degree (will be completed in less than a month), and I'm confident that my credentials as a reliable source hold up.

In the meantime, I will keep adding my Tourography of the band to the site. If you continue to delete the link, Maurauth, it only proves that you care less about using reliable sources and more about maintaining dictatorial control over the web page.


 * Try to stay cool, there's a difference between what you consider reliable sources and WP:Reliable Sources. Further additions of your fansite will be treated as vandalism. ≈  Maurauth  ( nemesis ) 22:20, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

Warnings
Please do not delete content from articles on Wikipedia, as you did to Iron Maiden. Your edits appear to be vandalism and have been reverted. If you would like to experiment, please use Sandbox for test edits. Thank you. ≈  Maurauth  ( nemesis ) 22:23, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

Please stop. If you continue to vandalize Wikipedia, as you did to Iron Maiden, you will be blocked from editing. ≈  Maurauth  ( nemesis ) 22:23, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

I am in compliance
I am following Wikipedia guidelines by posting my link. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:EL

It clearly states that outside links are acceptable:

"Sites that contain neutral and accurate material that cannot be integrated into the Wikipedia article due to copyright issues, amount of detail (such as professional athlete statistics, movie or television credits, interview transcripts, or online textbooks) or other reasons. Sites with other meaningful, relevant content that is not suitable for inclusion in an article, such as reviews and interviews."

While the page insists that links should not be added for the sake of adding links, it says links that are of help to the topic are encouraged.

Removing my links makes you the vandal, not me.

Policy violations
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You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war. Note that the three-revert rule prohibits making more than three reversions in a content dispute within a 24 hour period. Additionally, users who perform a large number of reversions in content disputes may be blocked for edit warring, even if they do not technically violate the three-revert rule. If you continue, you may be blocked from editing. Please do not repeatedly revert edits, but use the talk page to work towards wording and content which gains a consensus among editors. 216.21.150.44 03:57, 19 May 2007 (UTC)